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Agree with above. I've got a Pixma iP4700 (I think the current model is iP4950 now) which cost £77 at the time.
Funnily enough I needed to print 100 CD-Rs for a tradeshow recently and the Canon was great. It's a little bit long winded as you have to slide in each disc separately but I'd imagine you have to do that with every printer.
All 100 discs printed with perfect alignment, by the way.
Only issue with the Canon is that it can be a bit thirsty on inks, but the results are worth it. There are cheap third party inks but I wouldn't recommend using them personally. A4 photo prints (borderless) are excellent quality too. I think Kodak advertise as being the cheapest on ink costs but I don't know their range of printers but I'd imagine they have CD printing facilities on some models.
Check out the Epson P50. The cartridges seem to hold little more than a few drops of ink so we use a CISS.
Thanks for the responses so far. I have been mainly looking at the Canon ip4950, and Lightsrcibe. I like the idea of Lightscribe more than the final outcome though so probably gonna go for the ip4950 instead as can get colour images onto the cd then.
Trouble is it looks like the Canon ip4950 is out of stock everywhere I look! Does anybody know where t get hold of one. Need it within the next few days if possible.
On a slightly different note, I've just very kindly been Given an Epson PX700W and very nice it too with quite stunning Photo prints, however it has the facility to print onto CD/DVD and I was wondering do I need special discs to be able to do that? Not having had a printer that will print onto CD/DVD's I haven't got a clue? Any recommendations?
Ade
Before you buy into Lightscribe, time the process. You might find it a little tedious, especially if you're doing a lot.
Quote: Before you buy into Lightscribe, time the process. You might find it a little tedious, especially if you're doing a lot.
Fully agree. The results are good but at about 20 minutes per disk, 'tedious' really sums it up. Printing with my Canon inkjet runs at about 2 minutes per disk.
I use a Canon MG 5250, which is great, it will also direct print CDs DVDs from it's scanner. You have to use printable CDs DVDs which are a bit more expensive and harder to find, but give great results.
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